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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I wish our culture was better at honestly expressing our level of uncertainty, and being okay and encouraging of other people doing the same. Having widely-understood ways to say "based on what I know now, I think X, but this is a preliminary opinion and I am super-willing to adjust based on new arguments or evidence".
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Mike | Abundance
@abundance
This is not just a cultural issue, it's also economic. People have an incentive to sound confident and take extreme positions (that seems to drive engagement in the attention economy). With a different set of incentives people could be motivated to be as accurate as possible w their statements
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